positron camera

positron camera

[′päz·ə‚trän ‚kam·rə]

(engineering)

An instrument that uses photomultiplier tubes in combination with scintillation counters to detect oppositely directed gamma-ray pairs resulting from the annihilation with electrons of positrons emitted by short-lived radioisotopes used as tracers in the human body.

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